Not paying for sky yet recieving channels...

danielj315 · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:05

Sky : Recieving the channels for free and no idea why!

My grandparents who have an old sky boy and dish bought the card so that you can watch all the free channels on sky about 4 months ago.

Randomly about 3 weeks ago all the sky channels started working (sky sports, movies etc) and still no one is paying anything.

Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if it is a marketing trick from sky (to try and get you hooked :rolleyes:

)

cheers for any advice

anksta · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:18

years and years ago before it was digital we had a Sky box just in the living room to watch the free channels and some of them started to come back on. Think we ended up with everythin for about a month or so. Then they all went off again just in a day or something.

iCraig · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:23

I remember when our Telewest box suddenly allowed access to the adult channels. :cool:

Only lasted a day -- but what a day.

moon man · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:24

are you sure they havn't had the box chipped at the local dodgy electrical shop ?

TripleT · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:25

iCraig said:
I remember when our Telewest box suddenly allowed access to the adult channels.

Only lasted a day -- but what a day.

Haha

danielj315 · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:56

moon man said:
are you sure they havn't had the box chipped at the local dodgy electrical shop ?

haha, Unfortunatly I could never pursuade them to do something like that!

Alibaba99 · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:56

IIRC its a marketing trick for Feb only. Normal service will be resumed next month.

wassap · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:33

moon man said:
are you sure they havn't had the box chipped at the local dodgy electrical shop ?

Those days are long gone for the sky boxes! i knew someone who actually went to prison for scamming sky boxes etc, it was so widespread at one point it was scary :eek:

Paul11 · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:34

It is a marketing trick. to give you the full channels for one month and then take them away again to show you what your missing.

should get a letter in the post explaining it

Droolinggimp · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:44

Paulus said:
It is a marketing trick. to give you the full channels for one month and then take them away again to show you what your missing.

should get a letter in the post explaining it

Does that apply to NTL and the fact I have had 10mb for nearly 2 years and not paid one penny fo it. Apart for installation..

Will_3rd · 24 Feb 2007 at 21:48

iCraig said:
I remember when our Telewest box suddenly allowed access to the adult channels.

Only lasted a day -- but what a day.

LMAO much cleaning up afterwards?

Noxis · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:08

iCraig said:
I remember when our Telewest box suddenly allowed access to the adult channels.

Only lasted a day -- but what a day.

Seem to recall that happening in an episode of Friends.

DarkShadow · 24 Feb 2007 at 23:05

iCraig said:
I remember when our Telewest box suddenly allowed access to the adult channels.

Only lasted a day -- but what a day.

Reminds of the Friends episode

The one with the free porn :cool:

danielj315 · 4 Mar 2007 at 14:21

strange, they still have all the channels...

haven`t checked the porn ones

R@tman · 4 Mar 2007 at 14:46

id have sky if it wasnt such a rip off price

Killa_ken · 4 Mar 2007 at 14:49

iCraig said:
I remember when our Telewest box suddenly allowed access to the adult channels.

Only lasted a day -- but what a day.

LEGEN wait for it, wait for it

and i hope your not lactose intolerant because the second part of this word is....

DAIRY!!! :cool:

trojan698 · 4 Mar 2007 at 15:49

edited, family forum.

NokkonWud · 4 Mar 2007 at 15:55

My Grandad had free Sky for 9 years, all the movies, all the sports.
He even moved house and informed them of a change of address and a re-install and it was still free.

He only started paying when he upgraded to SkyHD.